Expanding Utilization of Home Dialysis: An Action Agenda From the First International Home Dialysis Roundtable.

ABSTRACT: In a groundbreaking meeting, leading global kidney disease organizations came together in the fall of 2020 as an International Home Dialysis Roundtable (IHDR) to address strategies to increase access to and uptake of home dialysis, both peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis. This challenge has become urgent in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, during which patients with advanced kidney disease, who are more susceptible to viral infections and severe complications, must be able to safely physically distance at home. To boost access to home dialysis on a global scale, IHDR members committed to collaborate, through the COVID-19 public health emergency and beyond, to promote uptake of home dialysis on a broad scale. Their commitments included increasing the reac

SUBMITTER: Mendu ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350829 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature